Burns Night Chalk Drawing

Burns Night Sidewalk Chalk 2013

Happy Burns Night everyone! This is my sidewalk chalk drawing for Burns night. 

Art Term of the Week

Chiaroscuro:

 

The use of light and dark in strong contrast to suggest forms in artwork.  From Italian chiaro=bright and oscuro=dark, literally meaning light-dark.  The Baroque period used it heavily and Tenebrism-chiaroscuro to the extreme-emerged as a style.  

Artists: Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Joseph Wright of Derby, Giovanni Baglion

Do you want to suggest an “Art Term of the Week”? Email me at theravenandthewritingdesk@hotmail.com and submit your art term with definition and example artists.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
    Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
    A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunt about thy shape
    Of deities or mortals, or of both,
        In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
    What men or gods are these?  What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit?  What struggle to escape?
        What pipes and timbrels?  What wild ecstasy?
                                                                Ode on a Grecian Urn— John Keats

So what are the two best known lines of this poem?